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UK: Key perspectives on women, fundamentalism and freedom

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Xenos
All are welcome for a seminar on 26 October 2006 at Goldsmiths College, London on religious absolutism/antinomian lives.
 
Xenos is a research group in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, and aims to develop in a multidisciplinary way new approaches to thinking about and researching the geosocial and geopolitical conflicts we see today. This includes transnational and sub-national conflicts and wars based on ethnic and civic nationalism, religious authoritarianism and political violence.

GITA SAHGAL, Women Against Fundamentalism
What's God got to do with it? Antinomian resistance and secular feminism

CASSANDRA BALCHIN, Women Living Under Muslim Laws
The Double Discourse: 'Moderate' Muslims and their audiences

MASJALIZA HAMZA, Sisters in Islam
Claiming Spaces: Muslim women speak out

PRAGNA PATEL, Southall Black Sisters
Faith in the State? Multiculturalism and minority women's rights in the UK

5.00pm, 26 October 2006, Room MB 137A
Goldsmiths College, New Cross, London, SE14 6NW, UK

All welcome - please register and reserve a place by emailing xenos@gold.ac.uk
Submitted on Sun, 10/22/2006 - 23:00
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